Word: wilsons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Pressure at Work. The committee turned up some solid facts. Without question, bustling Henry Kaiser and his lanky associate Howard Hughes had had very special treatment in wartime Washington. Ex-WPB Vice Chairman Charles E. Wilson testified that he had ordered the flying-boat contract canceled. A couple of months later "we awoke to find the job was proceeding-Mr. Nelson had gone to Mr. Jesse Jones...
...confused with General Motors' President Charles Erwin Wilson. Other members: Lever Bros.' Charles Luckman, C.I.O.'s James B. Carey, A.F.L.'s Boris Shishkin, College Presidents John S. Dickey of Dartmouth and Frank P. Graham of the University of North Carolina, ex-Assistant City Solicitor Sadie T. Alexander of Philadelphia, Lawyer Morris L. Ernst of New York, Lawyer Francis P. Matthews of Nebraska, A.V.C.'s Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr., Methodist Social Worker Mrs. M. E. Tilly of Atlanta, Rabbi Roland B. Gittelsohn of Long Island, the Most Rev. Francis J. Haas, Bishop of Grand Rapids...
Young (31) Harold Wilson, who was once (at 21) the youngest don at Oxford, succeeded Cripps as president of the Board of Trade. The new Minister of Fuel & Power, Hugh Gaitskell, is, like Cripps, a product of Winchester and New College. Last week Gaitskell advocated fewer baths as a means of saving coal. "Personally," he had told an audience in Hastings, "I have never had a great many baths myself, and I can assure those who are in the habit of having a great many that it does not make a great difference to their health if they have less...
...Winslow Boy (by Terence Rattigan; produced by the Theatre Guild, H.M. Tennent Ltd. & John C. Wilson) was in real life named George Archer-Shee. Not quite 40 years ago his story-which Playwright Rattigan has followed pretty faithfully-became a cause célèbre of Edwardian England; some eight years ago Alexander Woollcott made good quick reading matter of it for snack-loving Americans...
...appeared concurrently with Brooks's wholesale excommunication of modern writers as "defeatists" and "fatalists." Coming from a critic who had hitherto bewailed America's indifference to her contemporary writers, Brooks's charges seemed a betrayal. The little magazines gave him a merciless drubbing, and Critic Edmund Wilson caustically rapped The Flowering for "chortling, beaming and crooning in a manner little short of rapturous over those same American household classics ... whose deficiencies . . . he had [previously] so unflinchingly brought to our notice...